The film The Truman Show challenges and extends much of the issues and concerns of the feminist analysis made by Berger, Doane, and Mulvey. ... Truman is a male character, but is placed as the object of cinematic gaze. ... He is not the stereotypical male character of the common Hollywood cinema; rather, a female character takes on this role. ... While Sylvia's character challenges Mulvey and the other authors' assumption that women are the objects of men, the character of Meryl extends these authors' ideas. ... The various assumptions and concerns of the writers, in rela...

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A Doll's House 2003 Assignment Explain how a playwright employs minor characters to establish the dominant values of a society in which the central character is marginalised. ... At the end of scene three Nora expresses the truth she"d learned about her marriage, Torvald's character and her life in general. ... Linde was a revolutionary character who serves to highlight the injustice by challenging the gender roles assigned to women. ... No character demonstrates this better than Linde and eventually Nora as she follows suit. ... Linde was also discriminated against for her cold...

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That is to say, both characters come from different social classes. ... So we do not really know this character, since she died long before the story begins. ... The male character, on the other hand, also plays an important role in the novel. ... Nevertheless, according to our previous analysis, Catherine and Heathcliff protagonists do not seem to face the responsibilities that come with being adult. That is, although the story takes place from childhood to adulthood, there is not a total psychological development of the main characters, being as from the beginning to the end they continue to...

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That is to say, both characters come from different social classes. ... So we do not really know this character, since she died long before the story begins. ... The male character, on the other hand, also plays an important role in the novel. ... Nevertheless, according to our previous analysis, Catherine and Heathcliff protagonists do not seem to face the responsibilities that come with being adult. That is, although the story takes place from childhood to adulthood, there is not a total psychological development of the main characters, being as from the beginning to the end they continue to...

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Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman it will become evident that the females in these two novels are themselves heroes. ... This character is usually older, lacks affection and seems rather rigid towards the other characters but usually they are really very caring and usually act as the pillar holding the family together. ... May's Chinese Women Characters. ... A character who is defiant, an individual, a crusader. ... We see this through the characters of Marian, Lily, Poh-P...

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The female characters are dressed in such way that they are forced to been inactive whereas the male characters' costumes are obviously made for the environment that the film was set in, as the clothes are worn and dusty and easy to move in. ... The first was Fay Wray in King Kong, a character renowned for her high pitched call of fear. ... Altaira's whole purpose of her character is that of a reward, to be fought over by the hero and the evil robot. ... In the original film, which was made in the late 1970's, the character Ripley, is part of the crew in charge of a space-shi...

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The advertisement coordinates her outfit with the green theme of the brand's packaging and looks very similar to the familiar female character from Kill Bill. ... By using a female character, similar to the Bride in Kill Bill, the ad is depicting a strong individual in a weak position. ... It could let woman see that, if such a strong powerful character can use this mop to defeat the dirt, so can they. ...

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. ************************* The main character in this film is the English teacher who is portrayed as idealistic in his thinking. ... This causes the boys into conformity with only one way of thinking, but when a new English teacher is introduced into this authoritarian lifestyle, they begin to develop a new character role by showing creative thinking skills. ... Looking at the film in the way that we analysis the gender meaning has shown a untold story in its self. ...

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At first glance and with the most shallowness of analysis it can be assumed that these women are "bad women ", especially when set up against the woman of "The Clerk's Tale " whose submissiveness was often celebrated and elevated as something all women should strive to emulate. ... All three of these characters and women like them, despite modern reader's issues with their behaviors, have represented "good women " well in Middle English literature and have even redefined, through their actions, what it means to be a good woman without that gaze of the sexist men who surrounded them ...

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The setting, irony, character motives and Glaspell's message to the female readers gave insight on what came really came of Mr. ... Their analysis of Minnie Foster provided enough evidence that she did committed the crime. ...

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When you think of the picture-perfect family, what comes to mind? Is it a mother and father where the father makes an income while the mother is at home? Or is it the realistic family that either both parents work hard for an income or the mother is taking on more the aspects of being the provider and the father is the housewife? Even though times have changed and women are starting to be the breadwinners and responsibilities for men and women are flip-flopping. Then why does the media still portray this perfect housewife image that the mother stays home, cooks, cleans, and takes care of the k...

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Masculinity in the Media The discussion of masculinity encounters a paradox: some behaviors are clearly aimed at dominance showing off, physical aggression, etc but no man is only dominant, some men are not dominant at all, yet somehow on the whole a systematic dominance of men over any person deemed as feminine seems to get reaffirmed. It helps to remember that dominance, just like any identity is a practice. Therefore only some of an individual man's identity practices can be relations of dominance; not all men in a society view themselves in this way, but through the repeated recons...

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